22nd December 2020

Rector’s year end message – 2020

As we near the end of 2020, I am hopeful we will be able to draw on the experiences and learnings of the past year with renewed energy to focus on our fundamental objectives to serve students through education, preserve academic integrity and to contribute meaningfully to the communities we serve.
10th October 2020

The Walk: UWC & Boschendal Wish Little Amal Safe Travels

As South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa to represent the plight of a refugee child.
7th October 2020

Race and the Psychic Life of Apartheid – Kitso Lelliot

I was born before the end of the state formation that legislated a racist-capitalist system of structural oppression orientated around race. While my early childhood was concurrent with its last days it did not have an immediate hand in shaping my early encounter with the world.